Flydubai航班的机长描述称，在遭到一名打算将飞机坠毁的副驾驶袭击时，他曾用手臂阻挡斧击头部，并大声呼救，同时伸手去转动开启机舱门的旋钮。
The captain of a Flydubai flight who was attacked by a co-pilot who intended to crash the plane has described blocking axe blows to the head and screaming for help as he reached for a knob to open the cockpit door.
Capt. Smit Machchhar因在上个月从迪拜飞往特拉维夫的航班中阻止灾难发生，发挥了关键作用，被誉为英雄。据阿联酋总检察长所说，这名副驾驶企图自杀式袭击，意在将飞机撞向本古尔贾因机场。
Capt. Smit Machchhar has been hailed as a hero for his role in averting disaster on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last month, helping to thwart what the UAE attorney general has said was an attempted suicide attack by the co-pilot who intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport.
Machchhar在阿布扎比一家医院的接受《国会山报》采访时，坐在病床上，头部和左臂均已包扎。他在采访中表示，第一次被击中时，他以为“飞机结构出了严重问题”，随后迅速意识到自己正遭受袭击，局势“急转直下”。“下一念头是我需要在这里求助，”他在周六发布的采访中说。
Speaking in an interview with The National newspaper from a hospital bed in Abu Dhabi, his head and left arm bandaged, Machchhar said that when the first blow landed, he thought something had gone “horribly wrong with the aircraft structure,“ before quickly realizing he was being attacked and things had “taken a drastic turn.” “The next thought was I need to get help in here,” he said in the interview published on Saturday. “My immediate action was to free myself from the seat belts, and I tried to just block the blows as much as I could,” he said, pointing to his arm that was wounded as he defended himself.
“我的第一反应是解开安全带，尽可能阻挡攻击，”他说，并指向自己因防卫而受伤的手臂。“攻击集中在头部。”
“The blows were coming on the head.”
“立刻我的手去到了打开门的旋钮，并大声呼救，呼救他的名字。”
“Immediately my hand went to the knob which opens the door and screaming for my colleagues, screaming his name.”
“我认为这是我第一次失去意识。”当这架航班FZ1073在沙特领空时，副驾驶用一把通常用于机舱紧急使用的坠毁斧击中Machchhar。
“I believe that was the first time when I lost my consciousness.”The aircraft, flight FZ1073, was in Saudi airspace when the co-pilot attacked Machchhar with a crash axe, typically kept in the cockpit for emergency use.
事发导致飞机在30秒内急坠16,000英尺（4,900米），随后袭击者被控制，机上另外两名机师成功迫降于沙特阿拉伯。嫌疑人是一名阿曼国民，已移交至阿联酋，即Flydubai的母国。
The incident caused the airliner to plunge 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) in 30 seconds before the attacker was overwhelmed and two other pilots who were on board landed the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia. The suspect, an Omani national, was transferred to the UAE, Flydubai’s home country.
公共检察官称，该计划受2001年9月11日美国恐怖袭击的启发，而相关刑事调查于10月1日启动。
The plan was inspired by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., UAE public prosecutors say, as a result of their criminal investigation launched on Oct. 1.
马哈什说，他听到驾驶舱门打开，并大喊“在我的同事和那个人之间”。他说，他最害怕的感觉是飞机机头“急剧下坠”。 “我并不确定自己会不会活着从这事中逃脱。我放弃了吗？不。”
Machchhar said he heard the cockpit door opening and screaming “between my colleague and the guy.”He said the scariest thing he felt was the aircraft nose “steeply going down.”“I was not very sure that I’ll make it out alive from this. Did I give up? No.”